[From: Every Woman's Cook Book by Mrs. Chas. F. Moritz (1926) p. 618]

                             SHERRY WINE

1½ cakes compressed yeast           3 lbs. seeded raisins
   2 large white potatoes              2½ lbs. sugar
   1 gal. boiled water                      1 lb. whole wheat grains

  Let water boil, then put aside to cool.  Soak yeast in one and one-
half cups lukewarm water, stir until dissolved.  Wash and peel
potatoes, run through meat grinder with raisins, add sugar, then
wheat.  Mix well.  Add dissolved yeast, then stir in gallon water.
Put in stone jar, cover and put aside three weeks, stirring every
day.  Strain, bottle and cork same as blackberry wine.


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